Rail-plate.



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Speccation of Application filed may 3, 12H3. Serial To @ZZ whom may concern y Be it known that I, FRANK ll/i. SIMPSON, e citizen oi the United States, residing nt Alameda, in the county of Alameda ond State of California., havel invented certain new and useful Improvements in Reilllotes; and l do hereby declare the iollowing to be :t full, clear, and exact description or the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art'to which it appertoins to malte and use the saine.

lThis invention relates to new and useful improvements in rail plates, end has for its object to provide e plate which will cooperate with the spikes whereby said spikes will be held substantially immovable.

' m' Another object of my invention is to prolide e spike having ratchets adapted to engage the rail plate when the device is in operation.

A still further object of my invention is to )provide o. device which may be used on any type of rail plete by making a slight veri tion in the spike apertures. lN 1th the above and other objects 1n view,

' l will now proceed to describe my invention in the following speciiication o.; penying drawings, in which, V

Figure l is a transverseV s'mtion'al view or my improved rail plete'siio wing the some as it would appear when in place on e tie; Eig. 2 is olongitudnal sectional view of my improved rail pletesimilar to Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is o. 'rag'mentel view oic my improved roil plete showing the spike :ipertnre as it would appear in plan.

Reerringto the drawings by characters oi reference, 5 indicates generally e rail ot the usual construction, comprising,r e heed G, o web Tend the i'lnnges 8. This rail 5 is mounted in the usuel manner on a tie 9 and .d accomf vis adapted to sent on a rail .or weer plate.

apertures l2 adapted to receive .'spilres. l

provide longitudinal slits 13 on each side of' the apertures, ,these slits being. adopted to separate the tongues le from the body por- Letters etent.

tion and the lateroll,y extending portions, its clearly illustrated in l 3.

in connection with my improved rail plate, l use the spike, es illustrated l5, provided intermediate its length with the lateral enlarged portions 1G, having trans verse grooves extending therencross, illustroted ot l?, which :torni teeth, clef ly illustrated in Fig. 2, these teeth being adapt ed to engage within the tie 9 to prevent npward movement of the spike therein und also adopted to engage the tongues ll on the rail plete, whereby the spike is held firmly against upward movement relative.- to the plate l0. @ne end of the spike is provided with o. point 18, which is adopted to be driven into the wood of the tie, and the op.` posite end is provided with :t heed 19, wliioh overlies t portion of the rail flange, es clearly illustrated in Fig. l.

In use the ties are leid in the usnol inonner end the rail plate laid in the desired. position thereon. The rail is then placed in position on the rail plato the spikes driven through the apertures l2.

As 'clearly illustrated in Fig. 2, free ends oil the 'tongues lei nre upon the insertion of the spilt-e press the fibers in the portions of the wood tie 9` underlying seid tongues. spike 15 is drivento its proper position.. to engage the head 19 thereof withl the reil base 8, the free extremities ot the tongues ore engaged behind the uppermost t ot teeth 17, and thus reliably lock the spike upward movement relative to the pleite i0. The teeth 17 below the tongues li are ein` bedded in the compressed portions of the tie underlying said tongues and thus eiiecti yly prevent 'upward movement of the spilre rele tive to the tie llVhile inthe foregoinglP ii ve shown ond described the preferred emboo in invention, if wish it to be under .L may change the specific arrangements of ports withont in any wey departing the spirit ond scope of in v invention.

Hoving thus fully described. my invery what claim is:

ln combination, positioned upon seid tie having `pertnres and slits extending outwordly seid` apertures forming tongues disposed trarneversely or' seif tie t reil positioned on 'l L plete between seid epertures, s 'oiires includ if 1 when toe ying Shanks positioned through said epergaged with said tongues to prevent upward 10 tures and in said tie, and heads engaged lmovement of said spikes. against the base' of said rail, the Shanks of In testimom7 whereof I aix my signature said spikes having lateral enlargements adin presence o two Witnesses. Y jacent the heads to depress said tongues and' compress the fibers in the portions of the FRANK MSMPSON'. wood tie underlyn said tongues, and teeth Witnesses: formed on said en argements embedded-in ANITA-W. HEWES,V

the compressed portions of said tie and en` ETHEL JoNEs. 

